We are delighted and very grateful to have received £4,500 from Awards for All Scotland and £1,000 from Angus Council Community Grant Scheme to put together a booklet to detail simple, nutritious, affordable and local recipes for older people living in Angus.

We hope that by doing this more people will continue to remain active cooking for themselves, family and friends or indeed take up cooking instead of buying ready meals.

If you have any ideas for simple low cost recipes please let us know and we will try to include them in the booklet.

The Foundations Independent Living Trust (FILT) has significantly scaled up its partnership with the Gas Safe Charity following a successful pilot in 2013 to provide essential maintenance and repairs to the homes of older and vulnerable people. The scheme has now been extended and FILT will be working with the Gas Safe Charity, Care & Repair Scotland and Care & Repair Cymru to provide help across the UK.

FILT Chair, Baroness Kay Andrews, said: “this funding will provide much needed support to many vulnerable and older people across the UK. I am delighted that we are working with our partners across the nations to provide essential support to keep people safe and warm in their homes”.

The Gas Safe Charity funding has been awarded to coordinating charity FILT, as part of a two-year programme and will be used to address the replacement, repair and servicing of dangerous, faulty or insufficient gas appliances and installations that put the safety of older and vulnerable people at risk.

The Gas Safe Chair of Trustees, Gordon Lishman, explained: “Working in partnership across England, Scotland and Wales will help put in place preventive services that directly address the risks of death, injuries and illness caused by dangerous gas work and appliances. The scheme will also help to promote gas safety awareness across the UK.’

This funding represents a significant opportunity for home improvement agencies and care & repair organisations to expand and add real value to locally commissioned services. This scheme also provides significant opportunities in the longer term for the development of new partnerships and profile for the local organisations who delivery of the work.

Scott Malcolm from Angus Care and Repair, said, ‘This is a huge boost to our capability to help those in need. We are looking forward to working with our partners to identify those most in need and enable us to make people safe and warm in their homes’

The qualifying criteria for the scheme is

Home Owners Only
60+ with means tested benefit
60+ with state pension only
21+ who are disabled (no upper age limit)

For more information contact Angus Care and Repair on 01307 463232 or email at Scott@anguscareandrepair.org

Gas Safe Charity was established in 2009 by the Gas Safe Register and the Health & Safety Executive. It is an independent, grant-giving charity which supports a number of programmes to promote gas safety and reduce carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK.

They created the calculator following concerns raised by Fire & Rescue Services about the risks associated with householders overloading their electrical sockets. They have tested the calculator with a number of FRS and the response from them has been fantastic. Feedback included: “It looks good and will be really useful for sharing with people – we’ve found it an incredibly hard issue to explain to people in words alone. ”

Falls are a common but often overlooked source of injury. Slip and trip accidents account for around 50% of all reported major injuries. Over 90% of these major injuries result in broken bones. Slips and trips can also be the initial cause of a range of other accident types such as scalding or falls from height.

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“ Angus Care and Repair provides independent and confidential advice and assistance to help older and disabled home owners and private clients to repair, improve or adapt their homes in order that the can remain safe, secure and warm in their own home in their own community”